This is a short video presentation that a teacher in Colorado, Karl Fish, created to share with his faculty during an opening day in-service back in August of 2006. This video spread like wildfire throughout educational circles via the Internet. Today we are going to view this video to help provide us a lens through which we can see what's happening in our world and more importantly what is happening in our students' current and future worlds. After the video we will focus on some discussion questions as a follow-up.
India and China both have twice as many college grads as we have in the United States, and they all speak English. How does this affect our job as teachers?
Today's learners are expected to have 10-14 jobs before they are 40. How do we prepare students for this reality?
Many of today's college majors did not exist 10 years ago. Again, how do we prepare students for something that does not currently exist?
By 2010 the amount of new information available will double every 72 hrs. How does this reality impact student learning?
What happens when children in developing countries receive laptops and can access the same Internet as do our students? (P.S. These kids are hungry to learn.)
We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don't yet exist...in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet. How do we do that?
What do we need to "teach" students who can find "facts" on nearly any subject nearly instantaneously?
This is a short video presentation that a teacher in Colorado, Karl Fish, created to share with his faculty during an opening day in-service back in August of 2006. This video spread like wildfire throughout educational circles via the Internet. Today we are going to view this video to help provide us a lens through which we can see what's happening in our world and more importantly what is happening in our students' current and future worlds. After the video we will focus on some discussion questions as a follow-up.
India and China both have twice as many college grads as we have in the United States, and they all speak English. How does this affect our job as teachers?
Today's learners are expected to have 10-14 jobs before they are 40. How do we prepare students for this reality?
Many of today's college majors did not exist 10 years ago. Again, how do we prepare students for something that does not currently exist?
By 2010 the amount of new information available will double every 72 hrs. How does this reality impact student learning?
What happens when children in developing countries receive laptops and can access the same Internet as do our students? (P.S. These kids are hungry to learn.)
We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don't yet exist...in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet. How do we do that?
What do we need to "teach" students who can find "facts" on nearly any subject nearly instantaneously?